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mikel31556 Author

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Adding accents while typing

I used to be able to add French accents by holding down the letter (a, e, etc.) and getting a pop-up screen to choose the accent. I seem to have lost that with OS 11.5.1. How can I get it back?

Posted on Aug 21, 2021 11:54 AM

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Barney-15E

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Posted on Aug 21, 2021 12:49 PM

One way to get it working again involved adding another latin-based language to the list of Input Sources. You can then remove it.

You can try copy/pasting this command into Terminal:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2021 12:49 PM in response to mikel31556

One way to get it working again involved adding another latin-based language to the list of Input Sources. You can then remove it.

You can try copy/pasting this command into Terminal:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

Old Toad

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Aug 21, 2021 1:06 PM in response to mikel31556

Have you rebooted since you typed that in? You need a reboot to activate.

mikel31556 Author

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Aug 21, 2021 1:02 PM in response to mikel31556

Thanks, but that does not seem to make a difference. Is there something else that I should type in?

mikel31556 Author

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Aug 21, 2021 1:23 PM in response to Old Toad

Thanks to both of you. I'm back in business.

Adding accents while typing